Christmas unpopular opinions.

[malificent7]

I love my Bayliss and Harding gift sets and if you dont like yours send them to meeee!
Any other different festive unpopular opinions?

Mine is that you don't have to host everyone or even anyone at all, just give them advance notice that you won't be doing it and leave them to sort out their own Christmas. You're not responsible for making the magic or providing a festive treat for the hoardes.

We used to spend Christmas Day shuttling between in-laws and my parents, going to one for the daytime and the other for the evening, it was a long tiring day. Then when the DC came along we had the bright idea of hosting both sets of parents at our house which was lovely the first year and by the fifth year was a fucking chore because I felt like a kitchen drudge, no one except DH or my mum was any good at helping in the kitchen and by the time we sat down to eat I was sick to the back teeth of most of them and wanted them to eat and then fuck off home.

Seething resentment isn't good for anyone and I love them all dearly most of the time so didn't want to feel that way. We told them in the January that next Christmas we wouldn't be hosting and would be staying home ourselves, they were welcome to call by for a visit if they wanted but dinner would be just us. It worked out so much better and is a much calmer day.

Christmas dinner is disgusting.
Grown adults don’t need Christmas presents.
If you don’t like your family or your in laws, don’t do Christmas with them, just say no thank you!! We have had Xmas just me DH, DD and DS every year since 2015, it’s lovely and stress free!

[quote OooPourUsACupLove]@TopTabby

Also I hate Fairytale of New York, overplayed & reminds me of fraught, hot shopping trips with toddlers!

God yes! It’s a horrible song about an alcoholic gambler who has wasted his and his partner’s life.

That line “You took my dreams from me … I kept them with my own, can’t make it on my own”….all I think is “Selfish fucker! Her dreams are for her, not for you to take to support yours!”[/quote]
yup its like stop the cavalry, totally not christmassy

@BettyfromBristol

Everyone over ten looks ridiculous in a Christmas jumper.

Totally agree though I'd drop the age to 5! My 'Christmas' jumper is my bi-annual cashmere polo neck. Too many people seem to be less concerned about the enjoyment of Chirstmas and more concerned about how it will look in Instagram etc..

@Pickles89

Mince pies are a fucking abomination

this, also christmas pudding and traditional christmas cake

Most Christmas films are absolutely shit, including love actually and the holiday

Hating FONY isn't that much of an unpopular opinion these days as its very much gone out of favour. I think the more unpopular opinion is to still like it. Particularly the uncensored version.

@EishetChayil

Posting big piles of presents on social media is the height of chavdom.

That’s not really an unpopular opinion though is it? I think the majority would wince a little at that.

I do think minimalist Christmas decorations are a bit sad however “perfect” they look. Exuberance is good.

Sprouts are ok, parsnips are too sweet.

Hand cream is a rubbish gift . Lip balm is better.

Roast dinner baps are the way forward

Grown adults don’t need Christmas presents.

No one needs a present but they're nice to give and receive.

Soaps and ‘smellies’ are the worst gift ever. I’d prefer nothing, either that or any sort of celebrity fragrance

Time out for 'A lovely bubbly bath with a glass of wine and your new book' is not a treat at Christmas, or ever.

Same with snuggling under a blanket with a hot chocolate. What’s with the mn on obsession for this?

Don't do a roast dinner if it's going to stress you out and send you into a tailspin. You can do an excellent celebration meal without cooking at all.

@CurlyhairedAssassin

Gift bags are naff, I'd rather see a badly wrapped present that a gift bag sealed with sellotape and don't get me started on presents in a gift bag with a crumpled bit of tissue over it or even worse a wrapped present inside a gift bag.

You see, opinions like this (if real) are why I'd skirt gift giving altogether. Some people are unbelievably particular about stuff which just doesn't matter. You hand a present over, they see what it comes covered in for about 10 seconds, then they remove it. I really don't see the issue with any of the things you mention if the present is hidden and they love the present!

Interesting.

I see a well wrapped present as part of the gift. It takes time ,money and effort. It says “gift” not I had to get you something.
Saying that I don’t mind a quick wrap gift depending on the gift/giver.

Making children wait and spread present opening throughout the day is just weird.

The magic of christmas is keeping it simple. Special wrapping paper, santa footprints, elves on shelves actually ruin it and cause children to question it earlier.

If you don’t like your family or your in laws, don’t do Christmas with them, just say no thank you!! We have had Xmas just me DH, DD and DS every year since 2015, it’s lovely and stress free!

Our parents have all died now, but honestly it’s not that easy to refuse to host/do Christmas with PIL especially if your DH is their only child, they live hours away and you don’t see them that often anyway.

@5128gap

Hating FONY isn't that much of an unpopular opinion these days as its very much gone out of favour. I think the more unpopular opinion is to still like it. Particularly the uncensored version.

The language isn’t the problem. I’m intelligent enough to handle the context. I’m just very over the lauding of abusive dynamics in a relationship as somehow more real or gritty or meaningful than love, respect and care. It’s a very adolescent worldview and the more you encounter fucked up dynamics in real life, the more you realise those narratives particularly hurt women.

“Can’t make it all alone, I’ve built my dreams around you”? Well I’m very sorry that’s the case Mr Fucked Up Drunk, but your need for me is not an obligation on me to give up my own life to make yours work.

I like a mini screwdriver set, and happily pinch them off someone else if I don't get one in my cracker.

Love all the naff cracker jokes too - I have a book that I pritt-stick them into, and now have a collection of terrible jokes going back over 20 years.

Oh I don't like Elf on the shelf at all.
Evil little fucker.

Unpopular Christmas food opinions:

Prosecco - 🤢🤢
Turkey - 🤢🤢
Chestnuts - 🤢🤢
Christmas pudding - 🤢🤢
Christmas cake - 🤢🤢🤢 mainly due to the marzipan!

Sorry about the non-Mumsnet standard emojis

I must be a total let down as prosecco is grim, I agree. Cremant at the very least. Ditto Christmas pud and cake. Bleurgh.

I made sticky toffee pudding for us yesterday. Really easy and everyone likes it. We don't bother with cake or mince pies really (buy a few in case any guests want them).

And I have a FAKE tree so I must be a MN pariah.

I like apple sauce with turkey.
I like giving my adult family (my mum, dad & sister) presents still.
I enjoy giving & receiving Christmas cards.

I hate that my friends are always so busy with their own families around Christmas that they're hardly ever free to meet up until a few days later... luckily I can go to work.

Making children wait and spread present opening throughout the day is just weird

One year (I think DS was about 3 or 4) he opened his "main" present from Father Christmas about 7am. He was absolutely besotted with it and played with it continuously all day. He even tried to take it in the bath when getting ready for bed and we had to rescue it as it had batteries. To me it would have seemed weird to interrupt his playing to give him lots of other presents. Iirc we didn't give him anything else all day and he got the rest on boxing day. That didn't happen every year of course, but it wasn't to deprive him of presents or teach patience or any other reason.

I have a beautifully decorated cream coloured fake tree.

And I was given a dryer by my dad for Christmas which I really needed!!

Haha, but I have tremendously enjoyed all the threads yesterday!